Sweatband for hats



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w. w. coLLYER SWEATBAND FOR HATS Filed sept. 1'?. 1921 .gli

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WILLIAM WELLS coLLYER, or srocxroar, ENGLAND, AssIeNoR To 'renner MANUTFAcTUREnssUPPLY COMPANY, LIMITEnor srooxroar, ENGLAND'.- j

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Application filed; September 17, 1921. Serial 'Nef-501,330.-

To aZ/ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that l, WILLIAM WELLS COLLYER, a British subject, residingat Stockport, county of Chester, England, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Sweatbands for Hats, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to sweat bands for hats in which an elastic orother cord is carried in a fabric formed into a loop or hem and stitchedto the leather and a tape with an openwork or perforated edge is alsostitched to the leather.

As hitherto constructed the openwork tape has been formed by weaving orhemstitching apart from the leather, a second piece of fabric has beencut and folded into a loop or hem to receive the cord and the parts havebeen stitched on to the leather.

This invention is designed to eliminate the separate operation ofperforating the tape and to utilize one piece of tape or.

material to form the cord receiving loop or hem and also the. openworkor perforated edge.

It consists in employing a single piece of tape or fabric woven orfolded into a loop or hem and stitching both edges to the hat leather,one or both projecting beyond the edge of the leather and at the sameopera-- tion perforating the projecting edge or edges in a hemstitchingmachine, one set of stitches forming the double function of binding o'neside lofthe hemstitch perforations` and stitching both edges of the tapeor fabric to the leather.

The invention will be fully described with.

reference. to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. l. is a side view of part of leather with the combined perforatedand looped fabric strip containing cord o.

Fig. 2. is a transverse section of same.

Fig. 3. is a side view drawn to an enlarged or exaggerated size.

Fig. 4. is a transverse section of Fig. 3.

The tape or fabric strip A is a plain piece of fabric preferably with aselvage woven along both edges and fewer warp threads along oneedge,though it. may be a strip of fabric cut from the piece, and the sweatband B is an ordinarj7 plain band of leather or other material.

The tape or fabric A and the leather B are together fed into a hemstitchsewing machine with aA plunger and two needles which work in the usualway. The tape or fabric A as it passes into the machine with the leatherB is folded into a loop or hem enclosing a cord a of elastic orother'material one or both edges of the fabric or tape A (preferably oneedge only) projecting beyond the edge of the leather.

instead of a, plain tape or fabric folded over on itself to form the hemor loop, a tape or fabric may be woven double as ahem to receive thecord a', the tape being fed or guided into the machine together with theleather, one edge projecting beyond the edge of the leather. y i

The hem stitch sewing machine works in the usual way, the plunger entersthe projecting edge a or edges of the fabric A and forms the perforationtherein, one needle makes the binding stitch on the outside edge of thefabric and thev other needle passes through both the leather and the twoply of tape or fabric, thereby forming the hem or loop in the tape 0rfabric, the stitch performing the double function of binding the 7What Iclaim as my invention and desire to protect by Letters Patent is l. Themethod of manufacturing hat .leathers or sweat bands having a perforatedopenwork tape along one edge and a looped fabric containing a cord whichconsists in feeding a plain strip of fabric, a leather band and cord,simultaneously into a sewing machine folding the fabric strip into aloop to enclose the cord as they are fednto the machine, and-forming theopenwork holes in the fabric by the same operation as it is stitched tothe leather band, the bindingl stitches at one side of the pe-rforationsform,- ing the double function of binding the perforations and stitchingthe fabric to the leather.

2. A hat leather or sweat band comprising in its construction la stripof leather and a. strip of plain fabric having perforations formed alongoneedge, the other edge being folded into a hem and hemstitches. whichbind the material on one side of the. perforation's and also penetratethe leather and Secure the fabric thereto.

,3. In a hat-leather'or sweat band the combination with the leather of astrip of plain fabric folded into a hem and stitcliedtheretogether andforming openwork perforamy hand in presence of twov subscribingvWitnesses. y l

WILLIAM WELLS COLLYER. Witnesses.

J. O. OBRIEN,

GEO. H. OBRIEN.

